The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-29
Just over the county lines

next tuesday.
The w. G. I. u, of Woodbury., make
an excursion to Ocean Grove to-day.
The widow of Maxwell Spencer Of
Swedesboro, has been granted a pension.
Two survivors of the Mexican war at
Woodbury., have been granted pensions
of So per month.
Two farmers in the vicinity of Clarks-
boro, have cleared $3.50 per acre off of
their tomato patches.
The church at Small Gloucester, above
Swedesboro, has been torn down an ! u new
one will he erected in lis place.
Tho Freeholders Of Gloucester county
have authorized the purchase of seventeen
of the ballot-boxes ordered by law.
/. Hurff Wcatherby and Jos. IIarker
marketed the first sweet potatoes from
Swcdesboro, and received $3.50 for them.
The annual district Sunday-school Con-
vention for the lower counties of the State,
will be held at Pitman Grove next Tues
day.
The sale of privileges for the Bridgeton
Fair, (which took place on Wednesday,
footed up 1884, very low prices prevailing
as a rule.
The colorcd people will hold a two
hNthS 1tihH siltttiiS III tIt!itii Ith5Oj! .
grove, above Swedesboro, commencing
August 9th.
A union temperance meeting will be
held in the Friends meeting house, Null
lica Hill, on First day, (Sunday,) July 3lst,
at s o'clock.
Diamond Council, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, OF
Swedesboro, is the recipient of a handsome
emblem of the order, presented by David
Bacon, of Bridgeton.
The cost of telephone service between
Woodbury. and Philadelphia, is nearly as
much as the price of an excursion ticket
between those points.
On Monday, Casper Badd, of Gloucester
county, picked from Lis four and a-half
acre citron patch two huudeed and fifty
five baskets of ripe citrons.
Frank G. Smith, Esq, of Bridgeton, adj
dressed a large audience at Garrigue's
Hall, Woodbury., last Sunday evening, on
the subject of temperance.
The lessee of the Hotel Cumberland, at
Bridgcton, has given VI his lease, and
Mr.. Tice formerly of the Arch st. House,
Phila., will take charge of the hostelrie.
Comrade Jos. II. Preston, keeper Of one
of the lighthouses, along the Delaware
river in Gloucester county. presented Gen.
IlONtIl l. Oot, " L Ie.y VI w OOuUUIi. Will
an eagle for its camp room.
"Lady Allen" the pacing mare former
ly owned by G.. Selden Johnson, of Wood
bury, ran away with w. B. Spooner, her
present owner. at Paramount Park, Phila-
delphia, last week, and broke his neck.
Samuel Swain, of Bristol, Pa, is ex-
pected to address a meeting, N the sub.
iect of temperance, in the Friends Meet
| ivor TTNuco MioGrIotnp ~ nav+ 'E;rc+ 1ou
afternoon, the 31st inst, at 3 o'clock. All
are cordially invited.
A good many people attribute the pre-
vaiiing sickness in Clayton to the draining
of Harding's pond, the water being let off
while the bottom was cleared Of stumps
and other rubbish. Council has ordered
the water to be let on again.
The annual reunion of the surviving
members of the 18th Regiment, N. j. Vols.
will he held in the Court House at Wood
bury on Sept. 4th, 1887, the Board of
Freeholders having granted the use of the
building for that purpose.
The contract for building the new bridge
over Raccoon creek, at SwedesboIo, which
had been awarded to Freebooter Pierson
for 81, 100 has been Rewarded to John M.
Powell, Of Camden, for 81, $50, as a bid
from q member of the board is not in ac-
cordance with the law. Work OF the
bridge has been commenced and the piling
is completed.
Base Bali.
Alloway talks of organizing a baseball
club.
Thu second game between the junior
nine of Swedesboro, and the second nine
of Woodstown, will be played here next
Tuesday.
The first game of the series of six, be-
tween the Woodstown club and the Fen
wicks, of Salem, was played on the Woods
town Fair ground last Friday afternoon,
and resulted ina crushing defeat for the
Fenwicks, by a score of 10 to A, and the
Woodstown club and their friends were
highly clated thereat. We. too, rejoice
with a JOY that is tempered with the rec
objection oflast summers campaign, which
opened somewhat after the same fashion,
and filled the Woodstowners full, but "a
game is never out till it is played OUT and
as a series is subject to the same rule, and
last seasons series ended disastrously, so
we will wait till No. 4 of the series is
scored up before we do our shouting or
| weeping, as the case may be.
The result of the game at Salem on
| Wednesday, between Wcodstown and
EciiW ICho SCblo W po III tisIuNSs
the Salem club claiming the game by Gto
4, and Woodstown claiming a tie, which
claim the umpire upholds as We under
stand. If all accounts are true the Woods
towners were subject to some very dis
courteous treatment at the hands of the
"hoodlums" of Salem, who seemed de-
tcrmined that the game should remain
with the Salem club, whether or no. The
Salem club owe it to themselves to see in
future that their visitors are protected
from insult, or else the Woodstown club
owe it to themselves to keep out of Salem
in future, as in fact some of them an
nounce their intention ofdoing. The third
game will be played next Friday, August
9TH, at Woodstown.
Salem Sfftings.
A pier for steamboats,, at Elsinboro
Point (''River Shore') is talked of.
J. S. McCune has been awarded the con-
tract for building the extension to the
Grant street public school, at 50, 1855.
The Lecture Hall Company want to
close up business and sell out. A sssyndi-
cate" to purchase the property at private
sale is talked of.
Halls iron foundry, in Salem, including
TIE stock and fixtures, is advertised to be
sold Jointly Inv Cbar;ff Il oltv opd Eapctohlo